Thomas Gray Quotes

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• Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
• Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
• The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
• Thought would destroy their paradise.
• Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth,…
• Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,/ The bee's collected treasure sweet,/ Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet/ The still small voice of gratitude.
• To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should…
• Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances…
• Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
• Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
• The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their…
• Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the…
• The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of…
• And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
• Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
• Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death?
• Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
• I shall be but a shrimp of an author.
• What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?
• To Contemplation's sober eye. / Such is the race of Man.

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